St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-13
FASHION NOTES.

Pretty blankets with a thick fleece
and striped in dull blue or pink on
cream or gray ground, are used for max
ing dressing wrappers, and are very
warm and inexpensive.
The latest novelty in slippers consists
OF an Open-wOrk pattern stained out In
patent leather over a white OF tan-col-
Ored ground. These slippers come quite
high on the instep, and have a big bow
set across them in the Louis XIV.
fashion.
Stripes are favOriteS in every fabric.
Pretty pearl-cOlored MORE have fine
wrinkled stripes, which are set four
inches apart, and are in electric blue,
Charles X. pink, or dull apple green.
They resemble the fabrics of thirty
years ago, and are eXquisitely pretty:
The most becoming dresses for girls
from twelve to fourteen years of age are
plain white and checked stuffs, which
make the long bodies worn at that age
look much shorter than they really are.
A short tunic simply looped behind with
jacket bodice is worn, or separate
outdoor jacket.
The old-fashioned watered silk is
coming back into style, and is much
richer in effect than the modern MORE.
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the broad, delicate effects of the old
watering, which is intersperSed with
fine, wavy lines, and forms the founda-
ton of dresses draped with velvet or
camel'S hair, being made plainly, with
little draping and less trimming.
A handsome wedding garment for a
matrOn has the front of water satin,
four pleatings being laid across the pet
ticOat, and draped with black lace
flounces. The Square-necked cOrsage
and long court train are of black and
white striped satin, the stripes being
about an inch wide. Black lace trims
the open square at the neck and the
half-lOng sleeves.
For walking dress, and useful in all
weatherS, nothing is better than dark
blue SmoOth-faced lady's cloth, made
with a'plain round skirt.a panel braided
drapery. The basque is braided in
black and is quite round, with pleats in
the back. A plain braided jacket of the
same material forms the outer wrap.
The jersey in its re formed state grows
constantly in popularity. 1t come in all
shades and divers shapes. Pretty gray
ones have yoke, heavily embroidered
with narrow, fiat braid set on edge, and
the same is repeated on the sleeves. Red
ones have the yoke made in multitude
nous tiny tuckS, and bunch of tuckS
slightly wider Immediately back and
front in the tunic. These are confined
around the waist with broad silk belts,
fastened with a long, narrow buckle
either of metal or smoked pearl. Still
another fashion is to have plain yoke
and tunic laid in broad;bOX-pleats, and
very expensive ones have cuffs, collars
and vests of velvet braided with tinSel.
Plush is made into beautiful tea gowns
OF girls de perle, with tiny touches OF
very pale crepe de chine to relieve the
gray These are very plain in design,
with demi-trainS and a little pleating of
gray satin set underneath the edge,
lined with deep lace balayeuse. The
front has vest of heavy gray satin,
forming sharp point and giving the
effect of lOng-waiStedness, which all
French gowns show. The pleats of the
vest are lined with pink, making thus
many very fine lines of the color, and
the tight plush sleeves come half way
below the elbow, the flare being filled in
with the crepe, which faces the high,
half-Open collar at the throat.
BOulanger hats are seen occasionally
but it is far too fiamboyant style to be
worn by well dressed women. 1t is
made of dark brown, blue, gray and
black felt, and much resembles in shape
the head-gear of the Knights
Templar. On the front is rosette
made of many loops of velvet
ribbon, under which is set the stem of a
long ostrich plume, sometimes two Of
them, which wave backward over the
top of the hat and are held to it with a
stitch or two in the back. They are
handsome, but fast looking, and in Paris
are worn only by that class of women
whose principal desire is to attract at
tentiOn.
For rainy weather the little sailor
hats are invaluable. They are made
usually of piece of the stuff fronting
the long cloak worn in bad weather and
are covered with many rows of stitching.
They are in shape like the English
walking hat and have a narrow curled
brim. For very young girls these are
trimmed simply with ribbon band, but
for older women sort of close pleated
fan of the cloth set in front is more be-
coming. These hats are excellent for
travelling, as they are soft and never be-
come crushed or injured and admit of
leaning the head back, and can be folded
up and put into satchel or pocket
without any material injury.